ePub soon on the iPhone?

July 12, 2008 | 7:59 am

Posted in: ebook, iPhone

By David Rothman

Here’s a reminder that Stanza is on the way for the iPhone (here and here). Remember, the new ePub standard is one of Stanza’s formats, and that you can get oodles of ePub books from Feedbooks.

Stanza on the iPhone ought to please Yoda47, another ePub booster.

Like me, he has this oddball notion that you out to be able to own books for real. We’ll hope that commercial publishers push for ePub to be the e-format on the iPhone in time—with either no DRM or social DRM in use in place of the present mess.

See earlier TeleRead item on Stanza.

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